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BB. C. I. FORSYTH MA. JOB ON THE 



[Mar. 16, 



session, he thought there was something odd about it. He thinks 

 we shall find the new pig elsewhere in B. C. A., " for, for some 

 time, there has been a rumour among the settlers that there are 

 two species of bush-pig, and that one is permanently though faintly 

 white spotted and striped (along the back)." 



4. PoTAMocHffiRus HASSAMA (Heuglin). 



Pig. 3. 



12 INCHI 



Skull of Potamochoerus hassama, (^ , from Abyssinia (side view). 



This is an Abyssinian Bush-Pig. The " Hassama " was first 

 mentioned by Eiippell ' and later on fully described by Heuglin - 

 under the name of Nyctochmrus hassama. E.. Hartmann was of 

 opinion that Heuglin 's Nyctocluerus was nothing else but the " Pota- 

 mochoerus penicillatus." ^ Sclater has identified it with " Potamo- 

 choerus africanus " :^ P. choeropotamus* ; and in this he is supported 

 by Nehring'', who, without entering into particulars, states in 

 the most positive manner (" mit voller Sicherheit ") that Heuglin 's 

 Hassama is "Potamochoerus la7'vatus'' = P. cheer opotnmus. If that is 

 so, then there are two species of Potamochoerus in Abyssinia ; for the 

 photographs of the skull of a male from Abyssinia, from Heuglin's 

 collections (see fig. 3, p. 368, and fig. 4, p. 369) — kindly sent to me 

 by Prof. Eberhard JFraas, Curator of the Stuttgart Nat. Hist. 



' Ed. EiJppELL. Eeise in Abyssinien, -vol. ii. p. 217 (Frankfurt-a-M., 1840). 



^ M. Th. v. Heuglin. " Beitrage zur Zoologie Afrika's. Ueber einige Saugethiere 

 des Baschlo-Gebietes": N. Act. Leopold, xxx. pt. ii. Nachtrag; 1863, p. 7. — 

 Heuglin & Fitzinger. " System. Uebers. d. Saugethiere Nordost- Afrika's, &c." : 

 Sitzungsber. Akad. d. Wiss., Math.-naturw. CI. 54, Bd. i. (Wien, 1866), 

 p. 586. — M. Th. v. Hf.uqlin. Eeise in Nordost-Africa, ii. (Braunschweig, 

 1877), pp. 97, 276. 



■"' E. Hartmann. " Geogr. Verbr. der im nordostl. Afrika wild lebenden 

 Siiugethiere " : Zeitschr. Berl. Ges. f. Erdkunde, 1868, iii. pp. 352, 353. 



^ P. Z. S. 1894, p. 92. 



' A. Nehring. " TJeber d. javan. Wildschwein-Arten, sowie uber Nycto- 

 ehcenis hassama, Heuglin " : Zool. Garten, xxxvi. 1895, p. 60. 



